The works of Thomas Gray
Subtitle: with memoirs of his life and writings by William Mason
By: to which are subjoined extracts philological, poetical and critical  from the author's original manuscripts, selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias.
Contributors: Mason, William, 1725-1797.; Mathias, Thomas James, 1754?-1835, ed.
Publisher: Printed by W. Bulmer and co., Shakspeare press, for J. Porter
Published: 1814
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 -- Correspondence.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Versification.; Plato.; Aristophanes.; Nicholls, Norton, 1742?-1809.; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.; Poets, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence.; English language -- Versification.
Notes: The "Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Gray" (v. 1, p. 131-493) consists largely of his letters.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Poems.  Memoirs [including letters]  Two translations of Gray's Elegy, the Latin by Messrs. Anstey and Roberts; title: the Greek by W. Cooke.  Letter on the death of N. Nicholls [by T. J. Mathias]  Appendix: Letters to Hon. Horace Walpole.; title: v. 2.  Extracts:  Metrum, observations on English metre; on the pseudo-rhythmus; on rhyme; and the poems of Lydgate.  Extracts; title: poetical; title: miscellaneous; title: classical [including notes on Aristophanes]  Extracts geographical, relating to some parts of India and of Persia.  Some account of the Dialogues and the Epistles of Plato.  Appendix:  Some illustrations of the Systema naturae of Linnaeus.  Postscript by the editor.